March 2003

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Features

Dismantling Nuclear Reactors

Taking apart a nuclear power plant that has reached the end of its life is a complicated task.
But not for the reasons you
might expect

By Matthew L. Wald

Which Came First,
the Feather or the Bird?

A long-cherished view of how and why feathers evolved has now been overturned

By Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush

Tech

Digital Entertainment Jumps the Border

By Harvey B. Feigenbaum

Bugs in the Brain

Time for a bit of humility. Some microorganisms
can manipulate neural circuitry better than we can

By Robert Sapolsky

The Search for Dark Matter

Dark matter is usually thought of
as something
"out there." But we
will never truly understand it unless we can bring it down to earth

By David B. Cline

The Sciences

Restoring Aging Bones: Blame It on Evolution

By Clifford J. Rosen

Departments

Letters

Letters

Erratas

Advances

From Lab to Embassy

Getting Warmer

Out on a Limb

Connect the Pings

Sustainable Surgery

Triggered Swarms: How Big Quakes Can Cause Small Quakes Far Away

Has a Nice Ring to It

Self-Organized Scenery

Re-evolution

Immunity Sapped

Unnatural at 21

Recommended

The Neurologist and the Philosopher

Skeptic

Demon-Haunted Brain

Anti Gravity

The Rael Thing

50, 100 & 150 Years Ago

Our Soil; New World; Moon Air

Perspectives

Total Information Overload

In Brief

Data Points: March 2003

Brief Bits: March 2003

Puzzling Adventures

Safecracking

Voyages

Follies and Foucault's Pendulum

Profile

Man against a Mountain

Staking Claims

Some Rights Reserved

Innovations

The Relentless Storm

By the Numbers

Sizing Up Evangelicals

Working Knowledge

No Two Alike

Departments

Fuzzy Logic

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Ask the Experts: March 2003

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